However, it might be complicated, because Samsung, HTC and others manufacture their devices i nthe same or similar shops.
HTC actually makes their phones in Taiwan. Since the manufacturing is in Taiwan, they pay the workers a decent level of wages and sweatshop like conditions are not legal.
Does this mean that heat causes cancer? We better get all those restaurant cooks in the kitchen some hazard pay!
That was sarcasm, btw. I don't think that heat causes cancer.
As a current resident of Honolulu, I have to respond to some of this.
First taxes are not very high compared to mainland states. According to the Tax Foundation Hawaii has the 30th highest taxes in the nation (out of 50 obviously). http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/topic/24.html
Second, there are a lot of homeless in Hawaii. The primary cause of this is high home prices. A home in a "bad" neighborhood will cost $300k-600k, in a "good" neighborhood they go from $500k-$900k, and in the "rich" neighborhoods they are ridiculous. Unfortunately, we live on an island, so there is a limited amount of land. Couple that with regulations that prohibit apartment buildings in a lot of places because they would "ruin the view", and one economic downturn has the effect of generating a lot of homeless.
But then I ask something like, "Can I replace the 'telephone' app freely then?" and they nod eagerly and say, "Yep, you totally can, you just jailbreak it like this and-"
If you mean the dialer app, then yes you can replace it, without rooting. In fact, there is very little you must root to do. Off the top of my head I have only had to root to do the following:
Install custom ROMs/patches.
Run a personal firewall/ad blocker.
Run a wireless tether app that doesn't require that I pay the phone company extra.
Run a VNC server.
Run a program that over/underclocks my phone.
"Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie